How to open browser to localhost through npm scripts

This can be achieved by including a couple of additional packages in your project. Additional packages Install http-server: $ npm install http-server –save-dev and concurrently: $ npm install concurrently –save-dev npm scripts Add the following open script to package.json: “scripts”: { “start”: “npm run open”, “open”: “concurrently \”http-server -a localhost -p 1234\” \”open http://localhost:1234/build\”” } … Read more

Pass command line args to npm scripts in package.json

Short Answer: Essentially, what you’re wanting is to have an npm-script something like this, whereby <arg-here> is provide via the CLI; … “scripts”: { “my-build”: “npm run vumper <arg-here> && npm run format”, … }, … However, unfortunately npm does not have a built-in feature to achieve this. The special npm option –, (refer to … Read more

npm scripts: read .env file

Short answer: There’s no terse way to achieve this that works cross-platform, as per your second example which references the $npm_package_config variable. For a cross-platform solution, i.e. one that works successfully on both *nix and Windows platforms – whereby the default shell utilized by npm scripts is either sh or cmd respectively, you’ll need to … Read more

NPM scripts not showing in the explorer sidebar

Few places to look for the NPM-Scripts explorer : The npm-scripts explorer can be enabled or disabled with the below settings, in VSCode’s settings.json: “npm.enableScriptExplorer”: false Default value is false, change to true and it should work. Try restarting VSCode for changes to take effect(although a restart is not often required) if it doesn’t show … Read more

npm ERR! Response timeout while trying to fetch https://registry.npmjs.org/react-is (over 30000ms)

Sounds like you have a slow connection. Try increasing the timeout from 30s to 60s by adding this to your .npmrc file: timeout=60000 You could also try adding prefer-offline=true if you are trying to save bandwidth or have a slow connection Note: if you don’t have an .npmrc file setup yet, you can create one … Read more